Ageless Gardens
The series Ageless Gardens is a visual celebration of gardens - and gardeners - with a special emphasis on the role gardens can play in healthy aging.
- 2018-2025
- 5 seasons
- Documentary
- TV-PG
The series Ageless Gardens is a visual celebration of gardens - and gardeners - with a special emphasis on the role gardens can play in healthy aging.
Season 5 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 2025
Episode 1
A Healthy Future
A group of women in Gibsons, BC form a collective to spread local knowledge about seed saving, while elementary school children learn the value of nature and food growing in a teaching garden nestled on the edge of the coastal rainforest. A Vancouver Island University instructor prepares her students to enter the horticulture industry.
Episode 2
Gardening with Family
Amid the bustling industrial region of Hudson's Hope, BC, we find a tireless mother and daughter team who market garden. An exotic plant buyer/seller collaborates with his partner to turn their small Surrey, BC garden space into a tropical getaway. A Victoria, BC father and son work together to maintain an arrestingly beautiful garden.
Episode 3
Gardening for All Seasons
A rural gardener and lily connoisseur in Neepawa, MB identifies hidden and rare plants left by the previous owner. A protected woodland and public-cultivated garden on Vancouver Island welcome year-round volunteers, students, and visitors. Writing about his travels to international gardens helps a Waterloo, ON gardener to appreciate the experiences in his own exquisite garden.
Episode 4
Gardening Heritage
A Bolton, ON couple grows food in their garden to use in traditional Italian recipes. An Edmonton, AB gardener pushes climactic limits, growing gingko, Japanese maples, figs, peaches, and sweet cherries in a region as cold as Central Siberia. Building on her grandparent's achievements, an award-winning rhododendron grower in Nanaimo, BC continues to spread plant knowledge to the community.
Episode 5
Harmony and the Garden
A photographer celebrates the botanical landscape of her lake cottage and her big-city Toronto, ON home garden. In a small Maritime village (Baie Verte, NB), a Governor General's Award-winning textile artist weaves her garden and family life together with inspiring tapestries. A woman quits her high-powered Silicon Valley job to start a Victoria, BC flower farm specializing in non-traditional bouquets.